Romanticism and Popular Magic
Produktnummer:
18acdf97f26d10402fb9da1678d192edcb
| Autor: | Churms, Stephanie Elizabeth |
|---|---|
| Themengebiete: | Ballad Biography Conjuror Didactic pamphlet Epic Imaginative literature Periodical Social history Thelwall William Wordsworth |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 06.02.2019 |
| EAN: | 9783030048099 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 303 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Untertitel: | Poetry and Cultures of the Occult in the 1790s |
Produktinformationen "Romanticism and Popular Magic"
This book explores how Romanticism was shaped by practices of popular magic. It seeks to identify the place of occult activity and culture – in the form of curses, spells, future-telling, charms and protective talismans – in everyday life, together with the ways in which such practice figures, and is refigured, in literary and political discourse at a time of revolutionary upheaval. What emerges is a new perspective on literature’s material contexts in the 1790s – from the rhetorical, linguistic and visual jugglery of the revolution controversy, to John Thelwall’s occult turn during a period of autobiographical self-reinvention at the end of the decade. From Wordsworth’s deployment of popular magic as a socially and politically emancipatory agent in Lyrical Ballads, to Coleridge’s anxious engagement with superstition as a despotic system of ‘mental enslavement’, and Robert Southey’s wrestling with an (increasingly alluring) conservatism he associated witha reliance on ultimately incarcerating systems of superstition.
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